The Great Mother refers to the concept of the mother goddess, including:
- Great Mother, in the Mahayana and Vajrayana refers to Prajnaparamita, and the wisdom of the Madhyamaka
- Great Mother, translation of Latin Magna Mater, Roman title of the goddess Cybele
- Great Mother, a title of the Roman goddess Maia
- Great Mother of Wisdom, Yum Chenmo, a Tibetan deity of whom Machig Labdrön is considered an emanation
- The Great Mother, epithet of Babalon, a goddess in Aleister Crowley's mystical system of Thelema
- Great Mother, archetypal image in Jungian psychology
It may also refer to:
- The Great Mother, a book by Erich Neumann
- Great Mother (Dungeons & Dragons), a deity character in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
Famous quotes containing the word mother:
“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making “ladies” dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)